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#todayin: who would have thunk it! report has revealed that UKIP voters are very right-wing indeed.
By feimineach / in #quickhits / March 27, 2015Charts from the independent. Today in NO WAY! You’re joking! Just STOPPIT! A report has revealed that UKIP voters are very right-wing indeed. NatCen, the country’s largest independent social r...
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#research: Political scientists are nearly as likely to study economic inequality as economists are
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / March 27, 2015Political scientists are nearly as likely to study economic inequality as economists are, though they’re less interested in how much inequality a market can bear than in how much a democracy can bear,...
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#todayin: racism: women in prison: racial bias in Australia and the US
By feimineach / in #quickhits / March 26, 2015While mass incarceration is a dominant social issue involving men, it is also increasingly affecting women of colour. Black women are three times more likely to be incarcerated than white women, and H...
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#vivelafeminism: Steinem: Our Revolution Has Just Begun
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #quickhits, #women / March 25, 2015If I had to pick a couple of myths about the women’s movement that are most wrong, I think two might be tied for worst place. One is that this movement—also known as women’s liberation, feminism, woma...
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#maleficentmisogyny: the revenge pornographers next door
By feimineach / in #maleficentmisogyny, #quickhits / March 25, 2015New statistics reveal that one in 10 women is threatened with “revenge porn” (i.e. the sharing of intimate/ sexual images online as an act of “revenge”): “In reality, th...
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#vivelafeminism: Subject to Debate: spreading feminism far and wide
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #quickhits, #women / March 25, 2015“Subject to Debate” is an email discussion between The Nation columnist Katha Pollitt and former executive editor Betsy Reed, now editor in chief of the Intercept, as they reflect on the state of con...
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#todayin: racism: study: black people over-represented in crime news stories
By feimineach / in #quickhits / March 25, 2015According to a new study by Media Matters for America, four New York City television stations consistently reported crimes by black people at a higher rate than their arrest rates. (Chart to the right...
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#vivelafeminism: The biggest threat to feminism? It’s not just the patriarchy, it’s “choice feminism”
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #quickhits, #women / March 24, 2015[…] There are more insidious and less obvious threats. These dangers hide in plain sight, and come partly in the form of a version of feminism known as “choice feminism”. This term is used to r...
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#vivelafeminism: Gloria Steinem explains feminism’s benefits for men
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #quickhits, #women / March 20, 2015Love. This. Woman. I mean, no one wants feminism to become all about men (because, well, we have everything else for that) but it would help to chip away at the pervasive (and misogynistic) falsehood...
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#picturethis: #anonymouswasawoman: #HERstory: women and the sidewalks of New York
By feimineach / in #feminism, #picturethis, #anonymouswasawoman, #quickhits / March 19, 2015From the HuffPo:New York sidewalks and chalk have been partners with the city’s women for generations. Setting the scene for childhood games of hopscotch and jump rope, chalking on the city’s pavement...
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#afeministtakeon: Gone Girl: a film unable to surpass its underlying misogyny
By feimineach / in #feminism, #afeministtakeon..., #quickhits / March 19, 2015I have yet to see Gone Girl but, for those of you who have, check out the feminist analysis of the film below. There are examples of Hollywood tropes (same old) but, also, what Angela McRobbie charact...
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#maleficentmisogyny: the awful truth behind the sexual harassment of women gamers
By feimineach / in #feminism, #maleficentmisogyny, #quickhits / March 16, 2015“You can see it getting progressively worse and worse. […] I’m not a gamer, so when he sent that to me I was just shocked — like a lot of people would be. I wanted other people like me, who are not ga...
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#vivelafeminism: It’s 2050 and feminism has finally won
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #quickhits, #women / March 11, 2015It’s 2050 and feminism has finally won. Women make up more than 80% of serial killers and serial killer-related entertainment shows. Everyone agrees that Harper Lee wrote In Cold Blood under Tru...
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#research: Ten findings from the United Nation’s Violence Against Women Study
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / March 11, 2015Headline: little has improved for women and girls worldwide since the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing (1995) where the UN vowed to address the discrimination against, and violence towards,...
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#afeministtakeon: The Fall
By feimineach / in #feminism, #afeministtakeon..., #quickhits / March 4, 2015According to Sophia Softky on bitch mag, The Fall* subverts traditional gender roles in crime dramas. Examples (and spoilers for S2) below. Also, reading this about The Fall (because, holy smokes, it ...
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#patriarchiesrealign: More large companies run by men called John and David than women of any name
By feimineach / in #patriarchiesrealign, #quickhits / March 4, 2015More large companies run by men called John and David than women of any nameInspired by a recent report that calculated that there are more men named John, Robert, William or James than there are wome...
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#maleficentmisogyny: “Women are bitches,” says a young man as he sits down.
By feimineach / in #maleficentmisogyny, #quickhits / March 2, 2015“Women are bitches,” says a young man as he sits down. Apparently a woman at the bar wouldn’t give him her number. He’s talking to the man sitting on his left in spite of the fact that I am sitting tw...
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#afeministtakeon: Mad Men and Game of Thrones (and call for research participants)
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / March 2, 2015Love this. Astute analysis and call for research participants. Elke Weissmann is Reader in Film and Television at Edge Hill University, Ormskirk, north of Liverpool. She has published a book on Briti...
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#research: #afeministtakeon: lad culture (two new research papers)
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / March 2, 2015From genderate: ‘Lad cultures’ in higher education – two academic papers out: With my co-author Isabel Young, I have recently published two academic papers on our research into ‘lad cultures’ in high...
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#saturdaysatire: ten things feminism has ruined for me
By feimineach / in #feminism, #sociology, #saturdaysatire / February 28, 2015I'm late to the game on this piece, I know. (I've been too busy hating men and not shaving my legs, you see.) Highlights for me: Catholicism (it and I were on shaky ground anyway but feminism blew it...
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